74:1  O You founder of the most Benevolent Order

74:2  Rise up to the occasion and post danger signs on the highway of life

74:3  Establish the Greatness of your Lord on earth

74:4  Keep a meticulous character! (Literally, purify your garments)

74:5  Leave alone the opponents

74:6  And give your wealth and person selflessly (30:39), (76:9)

74:7  Steadfastly for your Sustainer

74:8  For when the Trumpet will sound

74:9  That will be that Day - A Day of hardship

74:10  Not of ease, for all who deny the Truth

74:11  Leave Me alone to deal with him whom I have created alone

74:12  And then granted him abundant wealth and resources. (73:11)

74:13  And children and party abiding in his presence

74:14  And made life comfortable for him like a cradle

74:15  But he keeps increasing in greed, desiring more and more

74:16  Nay! Behold, he has been a stubborn opponent of Our Revelations

74:17  I will cause him to walk an exhausting uphill climb

74:18  For, behold, he thought, and he designed

74:19  And thus he destroys himself, how he designs

74:20  Again, he destroys himself, how he designs

74:21  And then he looked around

74:22  And then he frowned and glared

74:23  And then he turned away in pride

74:24  And said, "All this is a remnant of ancient magic

74:25  This is nothing but the speech of a human."

74:26  I shall soon cast him into Saqar

74:27  Ah, what will convey unto you what Saqar is

74:28  A Fire that lets not live and lets not die. (Fire of Regret)

74:29  Visibly written on the tablet of an individual's life

74:30  Over it are nineteen. (On the tablet of human life are inscribed nineteen patterns of behavior that lead to the Fire)

74:31  We have appointed only Universal Laws to be the keepers of the Fire. And We have made their number a trial for those who wish to remain in darkness. This admonition should grant certainty to those who received the Scripture before while the believers shall increase in faith. And that the believers and those who have been given the Scripture shall harbor no doubt to this declaration. And the hypocrites and the deniers may say, "What means Allah with such an example?" Thus, Allah lets go astray him who wills to go astray, and guides him who wills to be guided. And no one knows the Forces of your Lord but He. And this Qur'an is naught else than a Reminder to mankind

74:32  Nay! The Moon stands witness

74:33  And the Night when it departs

74:34  And the Dawn as it shines forth

74:35  Behold, this (the fore-going) is one of the Greatest allegories (that the Revolution is coming in all its splendor)

74:36  This is a fore-warning for every human being

74:37  To everyone of you, whether he chooses to advance or to lag behind

74:38  Every person is held in pledge for all that he has done. (52:21)

74:39  Except those who have succeeded for being upright. ('Yameen' = A metaphor for righteousness and success. They have actualized their "Selves" by doing good to others)

74:40  In Gardens they will ask

74:41  Of those who used to steal the fruit of others' toil

74:42  "What has led you into Saqar?" (A Fire that lets not live and lets not die. Fire of Regret (74:28))

74:43  They will reply, "We were not of the Musalleen."

74:44  "Neither did we feed the hungry, nor did we take part in helping those who had lost their jobs, those whose businesses had stalled, and those whose hard-earned income was insufficient to meet their basic needs."

74:45  "And we were among those who used to say what they did not do."

74:46  "And we used to deny the Day of Judgment and that the Divine System will eventually prevail" (And that Allah's Law of Requital is totally unbiased and makes no exceptions)

74:47  "Till the inevitable Truth came unto us."

74:48  Then no mediation of any mediator will help

74:49  What, then, is the matter with them that they are turning away from a clear Advisory

74:50  As if they were frightened zebras

74:51  Fleeing from a lion

74:52  Nay, each of them wants to be given the scrolls of Revelation personally, unfolded (and spoon-fed)

74:53  Nay, verily, they are oblivious to the Law of Cause and Effect - that every action has its ultimate consequence

74:54  Nay, behold, this is a clear Advisory

74:55  So whoever wills may take it to heart

74:56  But they will not take it to heart except in accordance with Allah's Law of Guidance. (4:88). He is the Source of security, and the Source of forgiveness and protection. (76:30), (81:29)